Jesus Christ Heals

The Fullness of Time

Divine Order is a key concept in personal growth which is often overlooked in the journey to inner and outer wholeness. When we set out to transform our lives through study, meditation and the practical application of spiritual law, we need a comprehensive focus if we are to fulfill our personal goals. All too often, personal crisis precipitates our spiritual journey with a very narrow focus: healing, prosperity, personal relationships, etc.

Divine Order is the demonstration of perfect balance in our lives and in our world. Denial and affirmation have equal roles in the healing journey, but they are most effective when they are applied across the board. I cannot expect to demonstrate prosperity in my personal finances while maintaining an aggressively negative attitude toward either the "fat cats of Wall Street" or the homeless in my own town.

Neither can I expect to demonstrate wholeness in any part of my life so long as I am unprepared to apply spiritual laws to all of my life. Eating right and thinking right are just as important to my physical well-being as to my spiritual life. If I cling to beliefs in financial or educational limitations, then will not I, cannot be successful in casting off limiting thoughts about my health and personal relationships.

Charles Fillmore said it this way in Jesus Christ Heals:

Before you can realize the mighty power of ideas
you must unify them. All must pull together.
Get you ideas in divine order, and a mighty mind force
will begin to work for you.
This divine order is necessary to the upbuilding
of both mind and body.

If I pray daily for peace of mind and heart, but focus upon news reports of wars and famines, how can I hope to demonstrate the peace I pray for? If I pray for healing even as I continue to abuse and misuse my body, how can I ever demonstrate improvement in my health? Healing, of any sort, requires perfect balance in body, mind and spirit and a willingness to grow in the fullness of Being.

Rev. Claudia Naylor

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Indispensable Assurance

The teachings of Unity emphasize the power of faith in choosing the life we want to live and our willingness to act upon the inner call to come up higher. Charles Fillmore wrote in Jesus Christ Heals that:

A man without ambition is like a ship afloat on the waves without
sails or power. Such a man simply drifts; if he reaches port
safely it is by chance.
But a ship under full sail or power needs one other important thing
and that is a rudder (which) needs a man to handle that
rudder, and that man needs faith.

Anyone can read about truth and talk about truth, but living the truth requires a deep and abiding faith in God as our own indwelling Lord. It is through the activity of faith that we find the courage to speak the truth and to live that truth with confidence.

Most of us get to the sound of an alarm clock, turn on the lights and put on the coffee/tea without a second thought--more by rote than anything else. Yet how many of us 'turn on/tune into' Spirit just as promptly as we turn on the 'real' electricity? No man-made current can hold a candle to the illumination of Spirit!

That spark of inner illumination that is God within, reveals a world of infinite possibilities and promise! We can literally see more clearly the ideas and choices stretching out before us. Faith will open a way to reveal and express more good in our lives than we could ever hope to imagine or realize without first acknowledging that:

God is our instant, constant and abundant source of all good!

No power or principality on earth can deny us or keep us from our good, for truly, we are the sons and daughters of the Most High, heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ! That is the Truth and the key is Faith.

Rev. Claudia Naylor

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God Said, and It Was So

The power of the spoken word of Truth transforms darkness into light, defeat into hope and lifts up the weary spirit. Feeling and knowing the power and the presence of God within opens out a way for our true potential to express freely.

Charles Fillmore wrote in Jesus Christ Heals:

When Jesus said:
The words that I have spoken unto you
are spirit, and are life.

He was speaking in terms of that inner Word
which creates all things.
The word... grows in the minds of all who give them
place, just as a beautiful flower or a great tree
grows from the seed germ planted in the
ground.

Jesus wrote no books; neither did He build monuments to Himself, yet His words live on in the minds and hearts of people around the world. His teachings were clear and simple with the power to change lives. Easy to study and to talk about, but powerless to transform until and unless they are put into practice in daily living.

The words that I speak have the power to heal or to harm. If I am to be that place where God shines through, then my life must be lived from within out--a celebration of the Truth in the here and now.

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11

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The Omnipotence of Prayer

Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, wrote in Jesus Christ Heals that:

Prayer is not supplication or begging
but a simple asking for that which we know is
waiting for us at the hands of the Father
and an affirmation of its existence.

Prayer allows us to release the burden of doubt and fear and find that still center within our own consciousness. Joel Goldsmith wrote in Leave Your Nets that "in the presence of God, there is nothing left for which to pray".

I don't need to beg or barter with God for the good I seek. Instead, I need to open myself up to the power and presence of Christ indwelling and allow God to reveal my path to fulfillment. My path will be clear when I am, and not a moment before. To pray without ceasing does not mean pounding on the 'door' of God consciousness, but to replace the chaotic 'background noise' of my mind with a steady awareness of God.

Such a concept of God gives man
a point of contact that is never absent;
in all places and under all conditions he has the
assurance of the attention and help of God
when he realizes the Father's presence.

Rev. Claudia Naylor

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"Producing Results"

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, co-founders of Unity, demonstrated the healing power of faith in God through transformative thinking. Believing in and affirming that "I am a child of God and therefore do not inherit sickness!" allowed Charles and Myrtle to overcome their own health challenges and lay the foundation for a world-wide prayer ministry.

Charles Fillmore wrote in Jesus Christ Heals that healing must follow the inner realization of our own true nature.

"I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly."
Jn. 10:10

When we recognize it and open our
consciousness to it, it comes flowing into mind
and body with its mighty quickening, healing power,
and they are renewed and transformed.

If I truly believe that the perfect life of God dwells in me, then I ought to demonstrate perfect health in mind and body. Yet, I do not. Last Friday I had meals on wheels to deliver and a long list of new mothers and their infants to visit at Southern Regional. When I got up that morning, my left knee was giving me fits and I informed it that I didn't have time for pain. For the next three hours, "it" was a non-issue. But the minute I finished the last visit, the pain came charging back!

Now, clearly, my mind was fully capable of setting aside pain and the limping it would trigger for three hours but then allow it to return without a conscious decision to do so. Even though it really hurt, I had to laugh at myself for "playing" such a stupid game with mind and body. The glimmer of belief begins in the mind, but must be irrevocably linked to inner faith and conviction before the outer demonstration of wholeness can manifest.

Rev. Claudia Naylor

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